A happy life refers to a "less unfortunate life", which is also a life that can be tolerated. --Schopenhauer
The movie "Back to every day of being loved" is written and directed by the famous director He Ping, and the film tells the common survival pressure of the North Drifters and the emotional confusion of the returnees in the context of the big era from the perspective of a small person.
The story switches between Beijing and Dujiangyan, the heroine Ai Ling remarried her father half a year after her mother's death, left home to go to Beijing; met true love in a rental house, but the other party died unexpectedly; returned to her hometown to heal "internal injuries", said goodbye to her late boyfriend, and reconciled with her old father.
This article will discuss the narrative expression of the film, the current situation of the "drifters", and their emotional fate.
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The film's narrative technique is unique, switching between two cities (Beijing and Dujiangyan) and three time and space dimensions (the female protagonist and the male protagonist know and fall in love, the female protagonist takes the male protagonist back to Dujiangyan to see her father, and the female protagonist returns to Dujiangyan after the death of the male protagonist), which presents the confusion and confusion of where the unsettled person's love belongs.
In the movie, one visual decoy has obvious emotional direction, and the viewer's line of sight follows the heroine Ai Ling, entering the rental house and returning to the gentle hometown, experiencing the contradictions and uncertainties of the inner world.
Irregularities and symmetries in composition
In the film, there are a large number of irregular compositions, inclined escalators, walkways, and ancient alleys, implying some internal unstable factors, suggesting that the heroine is experiencing danger, collapse, uncontrollable emotions, and a faint sense of uneasiness comes to the face, adding tension to the film.
At the beginning of Ai Ling's acquaintance with her boyfriend Jiang He, the director showed the dynamics of young people's lives in rental housing with a neat symmetrical structure. The love that comes from knocking on the wall adds a romantic flavor to their encounter.
Obstacles everywhere
Although the love of the male and female protagonists is sweet, it is always separated by obstacles. At first it was separated by walls, then there were railroad tracks, fences, big clocks, small streams... The director hints through the language of the camera that they are doomed to be separated from each other early.
Warm accents of orange and yellow
Every day after the heroine returns to her hometown alone, the feminine dark tone is always haunting, filled with thick sadness, orange and yellow are highlighted warm colors, rendering a warm mood of the view.
When Ai Ling's father passed by the old house after work, he deduced from the orange light emitted by the window that Ai Ling had returned home, and soon brought Ai Ling's mother's favorite yellow peony. The flower language of the peony is blessing, love and support, just like the father and mother always support the child, even if the children drift far away and refuse to go home. Orange and yellow, containing nature and sunshine, it gives people a warm and warm feeling, creating a homely atmosphere.
Rivers and railroad tracks
The rushing river, the old track full of debris in the capital, the long lines in the film, extend the audience's gaze to the distance, leading the thinking deeper.
In Beijing, smog and brilliant lights are together, reflecting the silhouette of young people's lives; the wet and rattling rain in Dujiangyan is continuous, as wet as people's mood. Can the heroine get happiness after returning to her hometown? Why is it difficult to stay in Beijing and go back? Through a series of visual languages, the audience and the heroine have doubts and slowly unraveled the answers.
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The preparation period for "Back to Every Day Of Being Loved" lasted for several years, and the director visited more than 20 small and medium-sized cities and interviewed more than 100 young people who had worked hard in big cities. Because of the solid case preparation, the film truly reproduces the current situation of the North Drifter in multiple plot settings.
About Health:
According to a survey by the Chinese Health Society, among the 16 cities with a population of more than one million in China, Beijing ranks first in the proportion of sub-healthy people, as high as 75.31%, and Shanghai and Guangdong rank second and third with 73.49% and 73.41% respectively. From the data point of view, the proportion of sub-healthy people in these three first-tier cities is significantly higher than that of other cities in China.
After the male and female protagonists quarreled, the male protagonist covered his heart and felt uncomfortable
About commuting:
According to the AutoNavi map report, in the four cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, the proportion of congestion hours per day to total time is 51%, 46%, 48% and 44% respectively, and congestion takes away some of the time. If you count 232 working days a year, each person in Beijing spends 174 hours per year on commuting congestion.
Ai Ling described the life status of North Drift: dressed beautifully and squeezed the bus subway, went to work in the CBD office, went home to eat instant noodles, watched variety shows, washed and slept
About renting:
According to statistics, if you choose to share a room in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, then even in Shanghai, where the room is the most spacious, the average room is only 15.7 square meters, Guangzhou is 14.1 square meters, and Beijing and Shenzhen are less than 12 square meters. In terms of the median area of shared housing, Shanghai is only 14 square meters, while Shenzhen and Guangzhou are only 10 square meters.
Only 8 square meters of room, 500 yuan per month
Although young people who work hard in big cities are under high pressure and complain every day, in my experience of living in Shanghai, there are very few foreigners who are willing to leave big cities. The inability to realize dreams, make a lot of money, and lack job opportunities in the hometown are the practical problems that prevent young people from returning to their hometowns. For the sake of dreams, for the sake of face, for the sake of fame, and even for the sake of Guangzong Yaozu, we must grit our teeth and persist.
According to the latest survey results of fresh graduates from colleges and universities, the proportion of first-tier cities (beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) that signed up this year is still the highest, at 33.5%. The number of tenants in first-tier cities is still the largest, accounting for 23.27%, and overall, most of the floating population is still concentrated in first-tier cities.
Therefore, the "escape from the north to Guangzhou" that has often appeared in the media over the years is more like a weak slogan.
Among the reasons for not escaping from the north, there is one that must be mentioned: love. Many people who go to the big city to work hard finally choose to settle down, in large part because there are beloved people here, who set up families here and become members of the big city. They fell in love with a city because they were alone, and they never left.
In the film, if Ai Ling's boyfriend Jiang He had not died of illness, she would have stayed in Beijing like most foreign girls to have children. However, Ginger and go to heaven, and her attachment to the city is suddenly overwhelmed.
People live, there is always something to rely on. Keigo Higashino said: Family is always dependent, is belonging, is an inexplicable feeling of dependence that grows in the heart as soon as it is mentioned.
However, for a girl like Ai Ling who has lost her beloved, home is the last concern in the world, but it is also the farthest place from the heart.
Some people, in order to soar to the top, do not go back; some people, for the sake of ideal ambition, are insisting; some people, because there are lovers in the big city, do not want to go back; some people, because they are estranged from their relatives in their hometown, cannot return.
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At that time, because her father remarried half a year after her mother's death, Ai Ling felt deeply hurt, thinking that her father did not love her mother at all, and ran to Beijing to develop in a negative mood, rarely returning to her hometown. The appearance of Jiang He is like a gift arranged by God to Ai Ling, who communicates with Ai Ling's father about the contradiction between father and daughter and acts as a mediator. He told Elling that her father would always love her mother.
Ai Ling returned to her hometown to start a business, and her silent and introverted father helped her with practical actions, whether it was to help her wash dishes or provide financial support, her father has always retained the compositions she wrote when she was a child, and a series of details touched her. Perhaps because of the same loss of lover, she began to understand her father's feelings when he lost his mother, let go of the past "too hard", let go of stubborn prejudices, and make peace with her father and with the years.
The philosopher Schopenhauer said: "A happy life refers only to a "less unfortunate life", that is, a life that can be endured. "Yes, the deliberate pursuit of indisputable practical dreams, stubbornness, inevitably falling on the head, a quiet and painless life, is more worthy of our possession."
In the last shot of the film, the father and daughter walk by the river embankment, accompanied by Xu Wei's "Xanadu Paradise" singing, slow and long, like a distant modern poem. In the long flow of life, we are constantly looking for a spiritual destination, no matter where we go, time will push us forward without stopping. Returning to the true nature and listening to the voice of the heart to follow the trend can we get loved every day in the endless flow of life.
"Back to every day of being loved", a work that makes people calm after watching, and has some thoughts and feelings. Now that you've been or are a drifter, you're sure to find some resonance in the film. In an impetuous society, we inevitably have some stubbornness and are blinded by memory. Slow down, look for inner calm and touching, peace of mind is the place to return.